Archive for 'Solution Talk' Category
From Doubt to Curiosity with a “Possibility Pill”
Posted by Sharon 4 September 2007I have a client who came to me with a problem - she doubts everything, both her capability and the capabilities of her team. In certain arenas the doubt has served her and the team, but in general, it creates a drag on their collective performance.
We agreed that to shift from doubt to optimism was […]
Expertise and Responsiveness - what you need depends on where you’re going
Posted by Sharon 21 August 2007It’s confession time.
Even though I (Sharon) have been in the consulting/training game for over 15 years, I still find it very difficult when I am expected to “tell people what they should do”, without any knowledge of their particular situation. So in order to satisfy this demand in the past, I have become an expert […]
Miracles do happen
Posted by Sharon 13 August 2007In my programs I sometimes ask people a “miracle question”, a visualisation activity, where they get to imagine that they go to sleep and a miracle occurs overnight and the problem that is facing them is resolved so that they wake up to a new future. I’ve found it useful for groups who are […]
Future Perfect - a direction rather than an end goal
Posted by Sharon 23 July 2007I’ve just read that the new Solutions Focus book is getting a plug in the Australian Institute of Management’s “Management Today†monthly magazine under the heading “Best Books in the Business” - good for Mark McKergow and Paul Jackson.
My recent course participants would agree with the review “this uniquely simple way of working sidesteps the […]
Building a Solution Focussed Platform for Change
Posted by Sharon 5 July 2007I have been using the Solutions Focus approach for a few years now in change and restructure work. It’s energising because it focuses on what people can and are already doing. Some or all of the following elements may be useful to consider in your own change processes. “They” refers to the […]